IT1 is likely to be as important to the way companies will organize
in the future as electricity was to the industrial revolution. IT will
revolutionize entire industries and markets. IT will create new
types of organizations that will surpass and outsmart traditional
organizations. This has been predicted for more than a decade.
But now it is happening especially in the music, newspaper and
publishing industries, and shall see it even more pronounced in
these sectors in the future. But it will not be limited to these
industries; it will influence all types of industry and government
organizations.
Already today, we see many examples of innovative
organizational designs, enhancing organizational effectiveness
and competitiveness.
The paper will briefly discuss the potential of future IT
developments, and will proceed to give a short theoretical
background for why we see a growth in IT-facilitated new
organizational forms. A couple of interesting organizational
design will be mentioned, before we proceed to making the
argument that any business process in principle may be
reengineered, centralized or outsourced in one way or other.
Interesting examples will be presented.
We suggest that future IT will have such a profound impact on
organizational structure going far beyond the traditional ‘virtual
organization’ that it calls for a new organizational concept, which
we have chosen to label the “Ambient Organization’.

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9

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eng

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Sultan Qaboos University

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How IT will challenge existing organizational forms and create Ambient organizations

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cp

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modt12mar21 lbjl

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International Information Systems Conference 2011

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Institut for IT-Ledelse

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ITM

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Department of IT Management

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ITM

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Published in "Proceedings of the International Information Systems Conference 2011"